[Xietor]

Well,

I live in a swamp. New Orleans is the miasma brought to life, including a dire history of disease affiliated with humans living in swamps.

"The population of New Orleans also suffered from epidemics of yellow fever, malaria, and smallpox, which would periodically return throughout the 19th century until the successful suppression of the city's final outbreak of yellow fever in 1905."

From the perspective of someone who has lived in MA Ctis dominion since 1982, I think the lizards are great. But the White Alligator would be really really cool. And though they are nasty, nutria are a part of the miasma swamps that are Louisiana.